CHAPTER 7. JUNGLE MISSION 44

That night Fushimi remembered that he was a clansman and he was a King because of the immense abysm of power difference that was between them. During the exposé of the video he had his fists clenched while the Captain watched without presenting a signal of emotion on his face, Hikari Mei's screams could be heard more than a mile away from the Square Plaza, that was for sure and being a witness of human cruel smirkings towards someone they thought was a game on a full HDscream was more than sick, more than they thought would happen, Fushimi run his programm obviously but while he was waiting the score that he was hearing was someone suffering to exhaustion without to mention the heart beat screen on the bottom that was about to give in to that cruel deploy of game. "That brat brought it to herself…" he tried to convince himself, maybe he did not care for anything but why was he reacting that way towards this, maybe because that brat as naive as she may seem was an inoccent as the ones dead back in the mall and was being used as a game for the public amusement and the clans infuriating situation to know what was really happening and when they even tried to persuade some of the folks out there, they were hundreds of them playing the mission made by Jungle.

An then, her heart stop in that silent but loud line that marked someone was dead. Awashima and him looked to each other and turned their eyes towards the Captain, there was no flinch, no emotion, he was just there watching with his hand on the sword that remained covered in his waist. Then, the green flash appeared and went through the chest of Hikari Mei and one beat was heard before everything went dark and the plaza began to buzz in laughter and voices after unlocking the level. But Scepter's 4 and Homra's gaze was upon the big screen that went off transmission.

"Captain…" Fushimi went towards him and then he knew, after watching his eyes, that he being an emotionless idiot was a lie… he was furious, his rage could only be seen in his eyes and Fushimi gasped, he knew that gaze pretty well, it was the sames as 'his' the same flames burning in the back of his eyes waiting to be unleashed, flames of anger, despair and revenge, and then, the thunders invaded Shizume City and the storm full of water and ice began to fall embracing his Sword of Damocles while his power was displayed on all the corners of the city sending everyone to take refuge. He didn't radiate aura, he was like nothing had happened around him, but those flames in his eyes and that storm were a reflection of his soul, Fushimi saw it happen and knew why Kings were different from their clansman, he remembered why he was following him but in that moment he feared him like he did Mikoto once. And then, a huge sound of destruction was heard.

"Captain!" Shouted Awashima looking to the sky and a crack was opened in his Sword of Damocles during the storm. He had the audacity to create a huge storm to heat all the city and his inhabitants, that was some power he had never let happenened before. She thought that her captain was being reckless.

Munakata headed to the headquarters while rain was falling never to touch him, never to feel the water he even created. "Captain!" She yelled but she didn't know what to do.

"You could be a stupid man sometimes you know!" Fushimi shouted running to him and taking a place beside him. They did not talk, they just kept walking, Awashima would take care of everything, Anna saw them leaving with concern in her eyes for the Blue King's state but they di not turned back to watch everyone else.

"What a pain." Said Munakata and Fushimi agreed but he did not left his side, he knew that he was starting to try to solve the mistery behind the video and Fushimi was looking at his PDA where Jungle Mission 44 was unlocked for him and his program was still running, he had the task to find out anything about Hikari Mei's whereabouts and he was going to do so. That, was a real pain. He titched his tongue and together walked to their HQ to began planning retribution.

Clansman and King walked together as equals for that night.

Munakata Reisi was training until he was exhausted but even then he didn't stop and stayed focused doing all the moves and counterattacks he could remember as if he was in an actual fight. From time to time some of his men came to talk to him but he dismissed them with a blow not inttended to harm but to scare away, he was missing something, he knew that, and this was his only way to take out the frustration in he was without making a fuzz about it, as she once said: 'you are human, you are allowed to have emotions, you are allowed to fall and get up again as many times you want, but fall as less as you can.' He cursed everytime he remmebered her during his training. He was missing something and that was bothering him to his bare teeth. He knew better and had resentment towards her for letting them harm to that point… "But you told her so…" and he atested another blow with fury, his inner voice was right, he had told her so a long time ago.

"When you decide to stop chasing ghosts into the thin air and come back to reality, let me know,so I can actually talk to you." Fushimi said with his arm blocking that blow and Munakata smiled. "What? So quickly you ended your tantrum? Wow, even for you that has been a record…Deal with it as Anna is doing! As Kusanagi-san is doing! As even I am doing!" He exploded." You are not the only one who have lost something with that video!

"And what probably could you have lost, Fushimi?

He gasped, he actually didn't know for sure but exchanged looks with him. " Yesterday you went into your dorm saying something like 'watch your hands' I actually figured out that you were not talking to me, not to you, but a ghost like the one you have been trying to scare away from this morning, so I rechecked the video again over and over again like the one in Annas' phone and yeah, your fiancé brat loves to deliver clues with her hands. We may have something.

"You never dissapoint.

"This time was not only for you but that brat too… and before you come take a shower for goodness sake!" And Fushimi dissapeared from the training area of the dojo.

A shower later….

"So, you think that someone who is being live elletrocuted would be in serious pain and out of any mind control, that is actually not appliable to Hikari Mei case. The video showed from the start of the labels a zoom out if the chains from where she was hung and the actual frame used during all the transmission was the same and at the same distance where the chains around her wrist could be seen and her hands. At first, you may imply that all the twitchs and movements from her fingers are random and caused by the spasm of the lightning bolts going through her body, but after actually concentrating on them you will find a pattern for all the fifteen minnutes she endured the pain until her heart stopped." Fushimi was replaying the video on the monitor and Munakata followed him every word watching all the frames and close ups he was refereing to." Now, doing a zoom in and a slowly paced second by second you will find this over and over and over again.

"But we do not know what it is for sure as much as we do not know what was Jungle's Mission 44 truly goal at all." Said Awashima but Munakata smiled arranging his glasses with a triumphant look. "Captain?

"We have work to do. Awashima-kun bring our landmark specialist over the city affairs and a map from ten years ago of the area where the mall was constructed. Fushimi organize the intel squad and find all the pans from that area and buildings surrounding it.

"You think that some dungeons from the app mission 44 are linked or surely alike one of the buildings near the mall?" Asked Fushimi looking at his avatar on the PDA.

"I am sure of it, but for that I need to see a map from ten years ago of that area, Awashima contact the Red King we might need again their help and found out if some of the buildings they were investigating days ago were part of some of these areas in particular and what they found about them.

"But, what did she truly said?" Asked Awashima.

"Railroad two o'clock, soda punch, five meters of concrete below, they really owned the block. That is what she is repeating over and over again with her fingers. We have work to do if what she says is true." Awashima excused herself with a bow but Fushimi closed the door and stayed inside. He looked at the captain and secured the door. When Munakata heard the click of the door he watched Fushimi with intrigue.

"Yes?

"I want to discuss something with you.

"What can possibly you want to know about what you just showed me?

Fushimi smiled but sent a photograph to the screen from his PDA to the monitor and Munakata narrowed his eyes. "I want you to tell me about the fact that Hikari Mei is Habari Jin's little sister and she hasn't aged a bit." Munakata arranged his glasses but said nothing, he just stared at Fushimi trying to figure out what he really wanted to hear and he will hear nothing more than what he wanted.

"Habari Jin, huh? That is an interesting theory, Fushimi-kun. Have you figured out what was Mission 44 real goal or this is another theory for you to understand it?

"Tsch..." but Fushimi didn't respond he just waited for the storm to reveal itself before his eyes.

"I am sorry to dissapont you but maybe that photograph is homemade, I didn't know of its existence until you showed it to me." Munakata said and went to his tea section of the office and knelt to make some tea for him humming a little bit.

"Are you mocking me?

"I would never imply it or put it that way but you really seem pretty stupid standing there waiting for me to reassure you that my future wife was the previous Blue King's little sister because a photgraph is deployed infornt of me. Really, you are better than tthat.

"What?

"Tell me, Fushimi-kun, where did you find out that photo, how do you know she is his sister? Does it is say somewhere on it, I only see him smiling and she hugging behind him with that cheerful face she does when she is truly happy, maybe someone could have manipulated some of our own photogras, I have one identically like this one in my living room at home when we went picnic to Osaka last year. Maybe I have been hacked like that day in the mall. Have you thought it that way?

"The word 'brother' was written in the other side of the photo.

"So, is it because someone randomly wrote it that you trust them, is that what you are telling me?

"No, but...

"You have your orders, you may go." Said Munakata giving him that peaceful morderous look that he sometimes did when someone was entering his private space. Fushimi turned around angrily and before he crossed the door Munakata said to him."Hikari Mei was not Habari Jin's sister, she only possesses one sister and she lives currently in Russia, I know how you work, Fushimi-kun, prove whoever send you that photograph with the word 'brother' wrong, prove them worng, that is another order." His Captain never ceased to amuse him and he smiled leaving his office.

"You really are playing a tic-tac-toe game, my beloved." He smiled and a purple flower appeared in his tea before he drank."We are coming for you." He said to the cup of tea taking the flower into his fingers and taking it to his lips closing his eyes while he waited for his clansmen to return with all the things he ordered.